Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Minister of Marine Rollin pirouetted, his gesture swept a Grand Salon in slick, mirror-like birdseye maple, softly lit by carved glass Lalique electroliers. Though he had just exhorted Frenchmen to build ugly cargo boats, M. Rollin waxed ecstatic a few minutes later at a unique new feature of the Paris, proudly displayed by dynamic General Director Maurice Tillier of the French Line. On no other ship, claimed he, is there an entire deck devoted exclusively to grand luxe suites each with a separate, private promenade-veranda on which the dogs and children of rich passengers may do their...
...General Electric plant has at present undertaken to furnish the California Institute of Technology with a fused quartz reflector for a 200 inch telescope. That means that this mirror will be about 17 feet in diameter and about three feet thick...
...obstacles seem almost insurmountable, but many have been solved, and those that remain very likely will be in time. The difficulty of fusing quartz for so large a mirror at the great temperature required, the problem of supplying heat for such an undertaking, and the ultimate question of how to mount such a heavy thing without having it bend and distort the curvature--all these are as yet not definitely solved, but they will soon be considered...
...Harian T. Stetson, director of the Perkins Observatory at Ohto Wesleyan University, for which the mirror is being cast at the Bureau of Standards, discussed land-tides similar in origin to the tides of the ocean. That the earth's crust actually shifts as a result of the gravitational pull of the moon on the earth is the theory advanced by Dr. Stetson...